From owner-cvs-all Wed Mar 15 7:46:39 2000 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from freebsd.dk (freebsd.dk [212.242.42.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E65BB37B935 for ; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 07:46:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from sos@freebsd.dk) Received: (from sos@localhost) by freebsd.dk (8.9.3/8.9.1) id QAA27560; Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:46:22 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from sos) From: Soren Schmidt Message-Id: <200003151546.QAA27560@freebsd.dk> Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/conf files.i386 In-Reply-To: from Thomas Valentino Crimi at "Mar 15, 2000 09:33:18 am" To: tcrimi+@andrew.cmu.edu (Thomas Valentino Crimi) Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 16:46:21 +0100 (CET) Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG It seems Thomas Valentino Crimi wrote: > Excerpts from FreeBSD-CVS: 14-Mar-100 Re: cvs commit: src/sys/con.. by > Soren Schmidt@freebsd.dk > >It already does that _if_ you supply it the right parameters... > >See LINT for details... > > One last vestige of /dev/wd* that I use is for VMWare. The wd0 driver > isn't anywhere in kernel but supplying wd0 as the link to > /compat/linux/dev/hda makes the whole thing usable. Is it somehow > impure to merge the IOCTL functionality of wd* into ad* (as I beleive > this is why wd* can let VMWare recognise the disk, I can search back in > -emulators for the name of the IOCTL). If you use the ata driver there is NO difference if you link to /dev/ad* instead (the /dev/wd* entries end up in the same place). AFAIK vmware works just fine with the ata driver... -Søren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message